Logic vs. Facts...

[Purple Rabbit]

Rabbit. I do assert that God has no explanatory power. How can I think that nothing of God is knowable when I accept as truth what the bible says about him??

Makes no sense frod. If you assert that your god has no explanatory power, your bible has no explanatory power, iow is meaningless. So is there some typo in the above or what?

Your dearest friend from 26th dimension hell, Purple Rabbit

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Surely if we can never find evidence for his existence, then it follows that he doesn't have any explanatory power. In fact can't have any explanatory power.

Hmmm. There's one rule here: nothing is sure. Maybe our science, intraceable as it is to god, is his explanation for mankind. We definitely need some mystical vapour here.

I suspect fr0d0 would say that 'god' gives him a greater understanding of the universe, but that understanding would probably be of a teleological nature, and nothing to do with the sort of causal and statistical explanations that we find in science.

Hmmm, yeah...interesting mind read.

Apologies to fr0d0 if I've mis-represented your views.

Yeah, me too. And we take great care in trying to reconstruct consistency from nothing. However it cannot be excluded completely that some misinterpretation in the near future might have been arisen from some debating mishap in your past.